Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.

[Arkandel]

@tinuviel Those kids would have loved MSB.

[jibberthehut]

No, you cannot eat the beaudreaux baby butt paste.

Stop eating the vegan child's food.

stop eating the dogs food.

Stop ripping up my paperwork HOW DID YOU EVEN GET THAT?

Stop <Squishing/carrying/lugging/squeezing/whatever> the kitten.

So, you cannot eat the pickling salt HOW DID YOU EVEN GET THAT.

OH MYGOD you just toddlered all over a check I had to cash WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT MARKER?

THere are toys a plenty here. PLENTY, but today they are not interested in any of it other than scaling the cat tree, terrorizing the kitten, emptying their diaper bags by standing on tip toes and pretending they are dogs and eating dog food.

I hate toddlers today. There's 2 more coming in an hour as well and I can't tap in my spouse because he is working on schooling/saw the writing on the wall and ran like hell for the library to use their wifi and not have ganging up toddlers.

I hate kids today.

[Tinuviel]

@arkandel They were like fourteen... but they also weren't really keen on the whole 'parental supervision' thing either...

[Jaded]

Yes please continue to lecture me about the topic you have no education in while I sit here and polish my framed degree.

Fuck I hate people.

[Auspice]

@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yes please continue to lecture me about the topic you have no education in while I sit here and polish my framed degree.

Fuck I hate people.

The best is when a simple Google search would actually give a decent overview of what they're trying to lecture about.

(Hint: movies/TV shows are generally the worst places pull knowledge from. Esp. when it's computer/IT stuff. I present you why I can never watch NCIS.)

[Ganymede]

@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yes please continue to lecture me about the topic you have no education in while I sit here and polish my framed degree.

Fuck I hate people.

This is how I feel when people start talking to me as if they understand capitalism and the history of economic change since the mid-1700s.

[insomniac7809]

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Yes please continue to lecture me about the topic you have no education in while I sit here and polish my framed degree.

Fuck I hate people.

The best is when a simple Google search would actually give a decent overview of what they're trying to lecture about.

(Hint: movies/TV shows are generally the worst places pull knowledge from. Esp. when it's computer/IT stuff. I present you why I can never watch NCIS.)

I still think a PC game should put in a hacking minigame where you win by typing gibberish as fast as you possibly can. Really immerse yourself in the experience.

Also, https://youtu.be/3aipwDzC2hw

[Auspice]

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

https://youtu.be/3aipwDzC2hw

Seriously.
Never take your hacker on-site.
Unless absolutely necessary.
And even then, make sure they have like...

hours.

[Lisse24]

A not insignificant number of coworkers do not know how to use the 'review' tab in Microsoft Word to make edits.

Instead, they will do things like change the font color when adding a new word or change the font to strikethrough to mark that it should be deleted. Not only is this a pain to go through and change, it messes up the formatting when I go to change things into HTML for our webpage.

[Jaded]

@ganymede

Interestingly that is almost what the conversation was about. Except more modern economics and business accounting tax structures which they know nothing about but they watched business movies like Wolf of Wallstreet and thought they did.

[Auspice]

@lisse24 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

A not insignificant number of coworkers do not know how to use the 'review' tab in Microsoft Word to make edits.

Instead, they will do things like change the font color when adding a new word or change the font to strikethrough to mark that it should be deleted. Not only is this a pain to go through and change, it messes up the formatting when I go to change things into HTML for our webpage.

TRACK CHANGES.
MARKUP.

LEARN THESE THINGS.

There are YouTube videos.

I feel your pain, @Lisse24. I really do.
Since graduating, I've begun doing a bit of freelance editing, so obvs I use these when I do the editing. So they can see what I've done, any comments made. I just drop YouTube videos in the email along with links to Microsoft's HowTos. I try to word it politely as a 'In case you are unaware...' sort of thing, but I also just sort of assume ain't none of these fools know how.

I mean ffs most of my classmates still didn't understand and we were walked through how it worked.

[WildBaboons]

@lisse24 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

A not insignificant number of coworkers do not know how to use the 'review' tab in Microsoft Word to make edits.

I did not know there even was review tab until I read this post. I just had to go and look. There it is!

[ThatGuyThere]

@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@sunny If you really want her head to explode, tell her you did one of those ancestry.com or whatever DNA tests, it came back with something like 65% Mexican, and you want to learn the tongue of your true people.

(Never actually do this. Ever. Obviously. But imagine the look on her face for a moment if you did, and odds are you will feel at least a tiny bit better about the absurdity of it all.)

See I would actually do this if the questions persisted after I gave my honest answer. This also might be why I avoid the majority of my family and they avoid me unless there is an actual emergency but I am far happier that way.

[Ganymede]

@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

Interestingly that is almost what the conversation was about. Except more modern economics and business accounting tax structures which they know nothing about but they watched business movies like Wolf of Wallstreet and thought they did.

Yeah, I get to sigh and listen to people tell me that capitalism is fascism or socialism is fascism, and I'm, like:

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@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

TRACK CHANGES.
MARKUP.

LEARN THESE THINGS.

I hate these things intensely.

Not generally; specifically, when people are making revisions to documents I draft. Why? Because I'm not a fucking dullard and I don't need people highlighting or scratching off shit, fucking up my formatting, like, bitch, I like my shit looking pretty, not like this ninth-grade English class abortion you just pushed out onto my computer screen.

I read. I edit. So fucking read the document again and check it over carefully, and I will do the same for you.

[Auspice]

@ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I hate these things intensely.
Not generally; specifically, when people are making revisions to documents I draft. Why? Because I'm not a fucking dullard and I don't need people highlighting or scratching off shit, fucking up my formatting, like, bitch, I like my shit looking pretty, not like this ninth-grade English class abortion you just pushed out onto my computer screen.
I read. I edit. So fucking read the document again and check it over carefully, and I will do the same for you.

See, if I'm editing (professionally) at your request, I want you to know those things. Generally, however, if someone is reviewing a document I put together... Unless I've asked them to edit it (which is usually someone, again, that's a professional because hey, us writers need a second set of eyes)... I just want them to go through and add comments rather than actually make edits.

But that, again, requires turning on the 'Show Markup.' So people still got to frickin' learn.

[Tinuviel]

@jaded said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@ganymede

Interestingly that is almost what the conversation was about. Except more modern economics and business accounting tax structures which they know nothing about but they watched business movies like Wolf of Wallstreet and thought they did.

I would never have thought of Wolf of Wallstreet as a business movie...

[MagicGirl57]

A man isn't worth shit if he feels the need to take his frustration and anger out on those around him through violence; especially not your adult daughter - your only child that still cares when the others have washed their hands of you. I'm not your fucking punching bag.

[Insomnia]

I live in the middle of nowhere, and to the left. I'm also a masochist because I decided to give the whole online dating thing a shot again. But the thing is Nova Scotia is a tiny, weird shaped province, so when I put within 50 miles, the site always goes as the crow flies, so it will tell me about people in an entirely different province which would take at least 8 hours to drive through. Or fish.

ETA it's not just dating though; all of those order out apps and the like, or needing to find a carpenter or something. Nope. No Uber either. It's a tiny little province, but everything is so far away.

[Cobalt]

When someone in the service industry says no they won’t give you their number — stop. Don’t continue. Don’t then ask them to put their booty on your face. Don’t tell them how much you love BBW.

I have only ONE OTHER time felt unsafe on a delivery, and this is the first time I have refused to finish the transaction to the best of my ability and instead gotten in my car and gotten the fuck out. Even the dude screaming at me for cheese sticks at Pizza Hut got his food before I finally said fuck it and left.

[Macha]

@cobaltasaurus It's hard being a female delivery driver. (It's a hard job anyhow, but...) I had a guy try to grab me and pull me inside once, before he even took the pizza. After that, my boss broke the company rules for me and made me carry pepper spray.